Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/23.4 mi away/719 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Alert. A Frost Advisory is in force for Ashley until 9 AM tomorrow. Read the alert in full, and see what it means in the Field Book.
Now. Ashley is 48° and mostly cloudy at 4 AM. With the wind it feels like 41°. The dew point is 43°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Moderate breeze from the northwest at 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 55° by 2 PM. Tonight falls to about 36° by 7 AM, under a mostly clear sky. Frost can form on the ground in sheltered spots. No rain is expected for the rest of the day.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Thursday, near 78°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 59°. The days ahead look dry. Frost is possible tomorrow morning, a low of 35°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:25 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 33% lit, and sets at 10:23 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 11 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
As of 4:00 AM in Ashley, Missouri.
Air quality
Index 16, good, led by coarse particles. Read at 4 AM from its reporting area, Mark Twain State Park (MO), 34 miles off.
Yesterday measured 20, good.
No smoke near the ground through Sun 1 AM.
Precipitation
0.85 in in the last 24 hours, 1.35 in over the last 3 days, to Fri 3 AM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
Visibility
Visibility stays 8 miles or more through Sun 1 AM, lowest 9 miles Sat 8 AM.
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Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Ashley, MissouriReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
The 6 instruments nearest Ashley, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 5.7 miles away.
measured now4 instruments
Mark Twain HSS2225
At a soil climate station/23.4 mi away/719 ft/28 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
Center 1ENE - Mark Twain HSCNRM7
At a river or reservoir gauge/23.7 mi away/728 ft/19 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
MexicoMYJ
At an airfield/32.7 mi away/814 ft/67 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
Citizen station CW3556CW3556
In a volunteer observer's own ground/39.0 mi away/543 ft/204 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
measured daily2 instruments
Bowling Green 0.6 SEMO-FSA-163
In a volunteer observer's own ground/5.7 mi away/896 ft/149 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Bowling GreenBWLM7
At a cooperative observer's station/8.0 mi away/741 ft/6 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The nearest airport reporting now, 32.7 mi from Ashley, Missouri. From its report of Oct 16, 2026, 4:35 AM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
46.4 F with a dew point of 41.0 F, 81 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 1,200 ft up.
From the west northwest (300 degrees) at 14 mph: force 4, a moderate breeze on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 28 mph.
The full report of Mexico, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
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Snow on the ground
24 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.